DillaTime

These days I’m having an amazing time reading Dan Charnas’ book Dilla Time, enjoying the blending of historic biography and musical…

Modding a SD-1 Pedal

I’ve had a Boss Super Overdrive pedal on my pedalboard for decades, it’s gives me a crunchy overdriven tube amp…

Building a Stomp Box

For ages I have been curious about what goes into making guitar effects pedals. I’ve had so many stomp boxes…

Updating Bluez on RPi

Update (Jul 9, 2019):Now, Raspbian Buster, released on 6/20/2019, has bluez 5.50 by default! This post shows how to update…

Song Sketching

Today I also listened to an interesting podcast by TapeOp with an interview with Michael Beinhorn, the producer of Herbie…

Arranging music

I’ve always been fascinated with the art of music arrangement, from the early days of playing in a band and…